Leslie Postal

Leslie Postal covers K-12 education issues for the Orlando Sentinel. She previously worked at newspapers in Virginia and is a graduate of Cornell University and Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Florida lawmakers want to impose term limits on local school boards. If the proposal passes the Legislature, it would go to voters in 2020, and they would decide whether to limit school board members to eight consecutive years in office.

Across Florida, high school students in more affluent communities are more likely to get into the state’s public universities than students from high schools in lower-income neighborhoods, an Orlando Sentinel analysis of 2017 admissions data shows.